福船

English translation: Fujian ship

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Chinese term or phrase:福船
English translation:Fujian ship
Entered by: karcsy

08:33 Jan 27, 2008
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Art/Literary - History / 中国历史:兴旺发达的中国古代造船业
Chinese term or phrase: 福船
沙船,乌船,福船,广船是我国海船类型中的四大名船,其中尤以沙船和福船驰名中外.

沙船 = a large junk
chica nueva
Local time: 05:30
Fujian ship
Explanation:
文库类文章:航海世纪里的九战--福船的光辉历史详细内容- [ Translate this page ]一、福船简介福船,是福建、浙江沿海一带尖底海船的统称。福船其船上平如衡, ... 建材主要为福建的松、杉、樟、楠木。共有六号,海战用的福船,是指一号和二号。按曾在15.
epasser.aydc.com.cn/article/adp/2/content27107.html - 35k - Cached - Similar pages


Firearms: A Global History to 1700 - Google Books Resultby Kenneth Chase - 2003 - History - 308 pages
The Fujian ship was a large, two-masted, ocean-going junk with a crew of up to ... Guangdong ships were somewhat larger than Fujian ones, and being made of ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0521822742...

The Archaeological Researches into Zheng He's Treasure ShipsThey could include such ship types as Fujian ship, Sha ship, bird ship and ... 〩The Fujian shipyards concerned constructed the treasure ships for use of ...
www.travel-silkroad.com/english/marine/ZhengHe.htm - 69k - Cached - Similar pages
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karcsy
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Thank you all! Thank you Huijun for the references.
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3 +2Fuzhou ship
Paul Frank (X)
3Fujian ship
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Fuzhou ship


Explanation:
"the 'fuzhou ship' (fuchuan, literally, 'the type from Fuzhou Prefecture'), from the Tang to Song periods..."
Gang Deng, Maritime Sector, Institutions, and Sea Power of Premodern China, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999, p. 7.

Paul Frank (X)
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agree  Huijun Suo: Or Fujian ship? http://newsailor.yculblog.com/post.1219375.html // http://www.meet-greatwall.org/gwwh/wen/jiaot/jiaot21.htm
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agree  Angus Woo
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Fujian ship


Explanation:
文库类文章:航海世纪里的九战--福船的光辉历史详细内容- [ Translate this page ]一、福船简介福船,是福建、浙江沿海一带尖底海船的统称。福船其船上平如衡, ... 建材主要为福建的松、杉、樟、楠木。共有六号,海战用的福船,是指一号和二号。按曾在15.
epasser.aydc.com.cn/article/adp/2/content27107.html - 35k - Cached - Similar pages


Firearms: A Global History to 1700 - Google Books Resultby Kenneth Chase - 2003 - History - 308 pages
The Fujian ship was a large, two-masted, ocean-going junk with a crew of up to ... Guangdong ships were somewhat larger than Fujian ones, and being made of ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0521822742...

The Archaeological Researches into Zheng He's Treasure ShipsThey could include such ship types as Fujian ship, Sha ship, bird ship and ... 〩The Fujian shipyards concerned constructed the treasure ships for use of ...
www.travel-silkroad.com/english/marine/ZhengHe.htm - 69k - Cached - Similar pages


karcsy
Local time: 01:30
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Thank you all! Thank you Huijun for the references.
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